The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights /

The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights / Simon Wendt.

"The Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists, southern blacks adopted Martin Luther King...

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Main Author: Wendt, Simon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American political activists > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Government, Resistance to > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Political violence > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Nonviolence > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Southern States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Black power > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Gustavus Myers Center.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.

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Call Number: E185.61 .W48 2007
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